Spellcaster

by: Shenandoah Software (John Fairfield, Scott Gilkeson)

Publication date: 1984
Topics: programming language, teaching, graphics
Item Size: 680.9K

NOTE: This emulation has multiple disk images. To switch between them, press ALT-8 and select among the .d64 filenames to load that floppy into the drive. F12 can also be used to enter the VICE menu if ALT-8 doesn't work on your operating system.

The Spellcaster Language Manual can be found here: https://archive.org/details/spellcaster_manual

ANNOUNCING SPELLCASTER™

The Easiest Computer Language in the World.

Spellcaster is a new computer language that is easier to learn than LOGO or BASIC. With Spellcaster you can learn to program your own fast-action video games, intricate art designs, interactive courseware, and many other applications using graphics, color, movement or sound.

What makes Spellcaster so easy to learn?

Spellcaster is the simplest language on the market. Young children use it to draw all over the screen. As they grow, the tutorial entices them into true programming.
Everything a Spellcaster program does leaves marks on the screen. You watch all its inner workings in motion.
Spellcaster’s on-screen tutorial makes your computer teach you programming. It even teaches you how to program your own video games.
Debugging a Spellcaster program is easy, because you can stop it, make it back up to the mistake (while you watch), change it, and let it run forward again.
Spellcaster’s manual, The Book of Spells, is light-spirited, color-coded and loaded with examples.

Full advertisement: https://archive.org/details/apples-apprentice-v1n3-1984-08/page/n31/mode/1up

Modern recreation: https://github.com/scottg521/spellcaster

"The Spellswappers' Gazette" disk magazine should be accessible as side B by pressing ALT-8. It has its own item, which doesn't boot, at https://archive.org/details/c64_spellswapper

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Year: 1984